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This article focuses on the Royal Manuscript 18 B II which is the earliest and most complete surviving witness to the Middle English prose "Melusine." The article discusses the single-text codex and its features including the number and placement of capitula and explores the hypothesis that the manuscript was translated from the first edition of writer Jean d'Arras's "Mélusine" printed by Adam Steinschaber in Geneva, Switzerland in August 1478.

The article focuses on a letter dated November 11, 1585 from William Davison, the English ambassador to the Low Countries, to an unidentified recipient. It mentions the note argues that the letter was most likely addressed to Sir Christopher Hatton, shedding light on their patronage relationship and providing a valuable addition to Hatton's limited surviving papers. Topics explored include the recipient's profile, the close working relationship between Davison and Hatton.

The article focuses on the history of "The Diggers' Song," a song associated with a 17th-century English commune known as the Diggers, and its possible authorship. It discusses how the song was originally preserved in an anonymous and undated version, found in the papers of Sir William Clarke, a military administrator. The article also explores the potential authors of the song, including Gerrard Winstanley and Robert Coster, and their connection to the Digger movement.

The author presents a list of the sales of the art and books of English author William Blake between 1997 and 2016.

The article explores the eighteenth-century newspaper war between journalist Mary Singleton of "The Old Maid" and Mr. Town of "The Connoisseur." Topics discussed include the documentation of the exchanges between Singleton and Mr. Town on issues such as competition and hypocrisy, the way Mr. Town published criticisms of Singleton in "The Connoisseur," and the response offered by Singleton about the involvement of single women in newspaper publishing.

The article discusses about the Chairing the members, one of the William Hogarth's four paintings The Humours of an Election. It informs that the series describes an election which takes place in the mythic borough of Guzzledown, making it a satire on the manoeuvrings behind the 1754 General Election, particularly in the constituency of Oxfordshire.

The article focuses on a fall 1926 incident involving Miriam Stephenson, a Lawrence College sophomore, who wrote a paper on George Bernard Shaw's 'philosophy and religion.' Shaw's response, a note calling her an "ingenious young liar" and suggesting a career in journalism, is examined. The topics include the incident itself, Shaw's unconventional response, and the implications for Stephenson's future, potentially in journalism.

The article focuses on Ares dual role as both god of war and lover of Aphrodite goes back to Homer. Topics include examines the first line of the epigram evokes the Iliad, where Ares fights on the battlefield; the second line, the Odyssey, in which Odysseus hears the story of how Hephaestus, the husband of Aphrodite, entrapped Ares in bed with his wife.

The article reports that the Italian scholar Scipione Lentolo, known in English as Lentulus completed several page history of the Waldensian church and its tribulations, the Historia delle grandi e crudeli persecutioni contra il popolo che chiamano valdese. Topics incldue examines this partisan yet scholarly account of the highly controversial Protestant community in the French and Italian Alps was over thirty years in the making and circulated early.